Before I entered the fusesmb command, /media/network was owned by root and everyone had read and write permissions.

After I entered the fusesmb command, /media/network was owned by samsung (my user name) and Group and Others became read only. When I try to manually change the permissions I get "access denied"

Should "system/users_and_groups/root/properties/user privileges/allow use of fuse...." be ticked or not. My "user_name/allow use of fuse...." is ticked as per Taz's original instructions, but root isn't. (FTR, I've tried root ticked and not ticked and neither seem to make a difference.)

Before I entered the fusesmb command, /media/network was owned by root and everyone had read and write permissions.

After I entered the fusesmb command, /media/network was owned by samsung (my user name) and Group and Others became read only. When I try to manually change the permissions I get "access denied"

Try doing fusesmb as root instead:

Code:

sudo fusesmb /media/network -o allow_other

that should work. If this fails, you could just mount fusesmb with read-write for your current user in /home/<username>/Network, thereby avoiding the permissions problem altogether.

Should "system/users_and_groups/root/properties/user privileges/allow use of fuse...." be ticked or not. My "user_name/allow use of fuse...." is ticked as per Taz's original instructions, but root isn't. (FTR, I've tried root ticked and not ticked and neither seem to make a difference.)

Yes, allow fuse should be checked. Having root's checked shouldn't matter, as root has access to everything.

Re: How to: Xubuntu - Thunar Native Windows Network Browsing

So I resized my 60GB Xubuntu partition down to 50GB and used the freed up 10GB for a fresh install of Xubuntu to the new 10GB partition (called Xubuntu2)

Lo and behold, by following Taz's original instructions there were no problems setting up the samba network share in the fresh installation. So something is amiss in my original installation.

Sorry for the long time to reply. Busy Holliday Season for me this year.

It sounds like something was forcing security permissions on your original install... Like an SELinux install option (Not sure if Xubuntu has this... haven't done an install in a while). But the point is... It looks like some security app (whether installed durring or after your original install) was overridding any permissions that you were trying to set.